Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Vernonia noveboracensis
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about New York Ironweed at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vernonia noveboracensis
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-27-005:
Vernonia noveboracensis
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
COMMON NAME:
New York Ironweed
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_veno_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_veno_004_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm0407e_01
July Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
Stems with numerous alternate, lanceolate leaves 4-8" long, per Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont.
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Keith Bradley kab_v_noveboracensis_2271
July Haywood County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm0308q_25
August Jackson County NC
Roadside
The intense, deep purple-violet color extends in some degree to the herbage, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm060805_039
August Haywood County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm060805_043
August Haywood County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Flower heads consist of 30-65 tubular disk flowers (no ray flowers), per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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JK Marlow jkm060805_085b
August Haywood County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Stems 0.6-2m tall or taller, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Tim Spira tpsvnoveboracensis
August
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JK Marlow jkm070924_002
September Greenville County SC
Field
Can be found in low woods and wet fields, per All About South Carolina Wildflowers.
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JK Marlow jkm070926_001
September Greenville County SC
Field
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JK Marlow jkm070926_004
September Greenville County SC
Field
It has long, pointed involucral bracts, per All About South Carolina Wildflowers.
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JK Marlow s070924_a
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow s070924_b
September Greenville County SC
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_v_noveboracensis
October
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JK Marlow jkm0311c_10
November Jackson County NC
Roadside/creekside
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JK Marlow jkm0311c_29
November Jackson County NC
Roadside
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JK Marlow jkm071105_002
November Greenville County SC
Field
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JK Marlow s031109_b
November Jackson County NC
Roadside
Nutlets 3-5mm long; pappus dark brown to purple, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Vernonia noveboracensis
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Vernonia noveboracensis
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-27-005:
Vernonia noveboracensis
FAMILY
Asteraceae__
1609
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it in pastures, bottomlands, streamsides, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Wet
...Moist
...Variable
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Disc: Purplish-blue
Rays: Absent
Bisexual
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers p279
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p049
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p187
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p128
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p402
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p210
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p139
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p389
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p104
- Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p190
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p255
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p334
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p386
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont p465
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p188
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p288